Employee directory bug fixes (Sep/Oct 2020)
- Hide "Default" office and department from left navigation, and from the offices and departments listing pages. The "Default" office or department is where we allocate user accounts that don't have an office or department field set, but this was confusing for end users, so we removed this from displaying in the sidebar and listing pages. Note: The Default office and department is still accessible via search and directly via URL (e.g. /#/default).
- Fix: If office or department names were too long, they were being ""cut off" in the sidebar. We fixed that by wrapping the names if they're too long.
- Fix: Certain users weren't able to sign in to existing tenants if their email address is different from their User Principal Name (UPN).
- Fix: If a user exists in more than one tenant that is synced to OneDirectory, their user details weren't syncing correctly.
- Fix: Squashed a small rendering bug with profile pics.
- Added filtering definitions for BusinessPhone and MobilePhone for custom fields functionality.
- Removed sidebar "snapping" behavior. It didn't add much value to the user experience, and removing it makes page scrolling smoother.
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Browse employee addresses and office locations in your employee directory 🗺️
Last week's OneDirectory release was all about location.
Here's an overview of what's new:
Addresses on profiles 📍
Employee profiles now show the employee's address, pulled from their Office 365 user profile information, and also shows a map.
Clicking on the map opens a fully browsable map view of that location, right in your employee directory.
Full map view 🗺️
OneDirectory now has a built-in map view to allow you to browse addresses without leaving the app. As expected you can scroll, zoom, flip to satellite view and street view etc. directly within your employee directory.
List view improvements 📝
We made a few improvements to the list view, including tooltips on email and contact numbers, reordered columns, improved column widths, and better text wrapping.
And if you have custom fields enabled you'll now see these show in your list views. Previously custom fields were only displayed on the employee profiles.
Other updates and fixes 👏🎉
- Improved address formatting throughout the app
- Added City field to Address section on Profile Insights
- Clicking the office address on an Office homepage will show the full map view
- Profiles now show an avatar instead of the "generic person" image, if the user doesn't have a profile pic
- Fix: Changed "Location" to "Office" in the sort drop-down
Introducing OneDirectory employee profiles for Microsoft 365 🎉
Say hello to the new OneDirectory profile, a way for your teams to easily visualize the Microsoft 365 profile information of their coworkers.
Here's what's new in the new OneDirectory profile:
- Improved profile layout to take advantage of more screen real estate
- Improved scrolling behaviour
- Improved display of office/department fields
- The org chart is now vertical: you can see more people at once, and you don't have to hover to see their names and job titles
- A better map
- A new "Chat in Microsoft Teams" link (available on the Pro plan)
- It's prettier
Visual update to your SharePoint analytics: chart legends, overview, date picker and more.
Ahoy there!
Some small updates from your friendly SharePoint analytics team to make your SharePoint Vitals experience even better.
Improved the layout of the Overview report 📊
A slick new date picker 🗓️
Legends, tooltips, and chart lines are now color coordinated: blue 🔵 for document metrics and purple 🟣 for page metrics.
Improved the "Where are people accessing SharePoint from?" map 🗺️
Plus:
- An updated sidebar with some fancy new icons 😎
- Added Email 📧 and Office 🏢 columns to the table on the People report
- Stripped out the host name of URLs to make them more readable. Hover over the link to see the full URL 🔗
Now you can search your SharePoint analytics data 🔍📊
Who enjoys lumbering through lists of SharePoint metrics reports? 🤷
Nobody.
That's why we made SharePoint Vitals as easy as pie to navigate: every site, user, document and page is clickable and contextually relevant so you can easily explore your SharePoint analytics data.
But something was missing until now, and that was search.
Well, it's here! 🎉
Just use the search box at the top to instantly find any user or object in SharePoint, then click through to view its stats.
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Changes to SharePoint analytics "content views" metric
Our latest update to SharePoint Vitals makes some changes to the way metrics are displayed for SharePoint sites.
Specifically, SharePoint Vitals had a metric called Content Views, which we created to make it easier to get a feel for how busy any particular SharePoint site was relative to other time periods, and other sites you were comparing against.
However, we found that this metric was causing confusion as it was only relevant when doing comparisons. Because it was a "made up" metric, when used on its own it didn't tell you anything factual about the site in question.
So we decided to remove content views from throughout the app, and instead place more focus on the document views and page views metrics in relation to their sites.
Now, when you view your SharePoint site analytics you'll see two lines on the charts: one for document views and one for page views. This gives you more insight into whether users are viewing more page content, or more documents, within a site.
This also applies to Unique Viewers within a site.
And as always with any chart in SharePoint Vitals you can view this data daily, weekly, or monthly (SharePoint Vitals tracks your audit data for all-time, not just 90-days which is the limit in SharePoint).
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